A study on the non Maxwellian nature of ion velocity distribution functions using Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) data
Francesco Valentini1, Silvia Perri2, Emiliya Yordanova3, William R Paterson4,5, Daniel J Gershman6, Barbara L Giles6, Craig J Pollock7, John C Dorelli5, Levon A Avanov5, Benoit Lavraud8, Yoshifumi Saito9, Rumi Nakamura10, David Fischer11, Wolfgang Baumjohann12, Ferdinand Plaschke12, Yasuhito Narita13, Werner Magnes14, Christopher T Russell15, Robert J Strangeway16 and Olivier Le Contel17, (1)University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (2)University of Calabria, Department of Physics, Calabria, Italy, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Denali Scientific, Healy, AK, United States, (8)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (9)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (10)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (11)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (12)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (13)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (14)Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (16)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (17)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France
